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Speaker 1: I'm breaking fashion law today. It's September nineteenth, it's after
Speaker 1: labor Day. I'm wearing white pants again. Did you know
Speaker 1: you're not supposed to wear white pants after labor day?
Speaker 1: I knew something about white Yeah, I don't know why
Speaker 1: white pants and white shoes you're not supposed to wear
Speaker 1: them after Labor Day. But you know what, it's still
Speaker 1: summer until Sunday, when it's going to be like ninety
Speaker 1: five degrees for the first day of fall. So I figured,
Speaker 1: why not. I'm a rule breaker. Here's what's ahead on
Speaker 1: wake up Call. Sean Diddy Combs is going to remain
Speaker 1: detained until he goes on trial for sex trafficking and
Speaker 1: racketeering charges. A judge denied his appeal to be granted
Speaker 1: bail yesterday. In denying the appeal, a judge sided with prosecutors,
Speaker 1: saying that Diddy is dangerous and a flight risk. Did
Speaker 1: He's been charged with sexually, abusing and exploiting women for
Speaker 1: more than a decade. At least fourteen people have been
Speaker 1: killed hundreds more were hurt when walkie talkies explos loaded
Speaker 1: in Lebanon. The explosions came a day after hundreds of
Speaker 1: pagers held by Hamas members exploded on Tuesday. US officials
Speaker 1: say Israel is behind it, but Israel has not claimed responsibility.
Speaker 1: We're going to find out how this was all pulled
Speaker 1: off and if more of this kind of action is coming.
Speaker 1: With ABC's Crime and Terror analyst Brad Garrett, that's at
Speaker 1: five point twenty. Cooler weather continues to help firefighters surround
Speaker 1: the big three fires burning in southern California. The acreage
Speaker 1: on all three is holding pretty steady. The nearly fifty
Speaker 1: five thousand acre fire in the Angelus National Forest, it's
Speaker 1: forty one percent surrounded. The one that was started in
Speaker 1: Highland is fifty one percent surrounded. And the fire in
Speaker 1: Orange and Riverside Counties, which has been the most destructive
Speaker 1: and has destroyed one hundred and sixty homes and buildings,
Speaker 1: is thirty one percent surrounded. We've been telling you about
Speaker 1: how Neil and I are going over the edge for
Speaker 1: the Union Rescue Mission. We're going to repel down a
Speaker 1: building to hopefully raise money to help the Union Rescue Mission. Well,
Speaker 1: we're going to talk to the vice president of philanthropy
Speaker 1: at Union Restle Mission, who's going to tell us more
Speaker 1: about the Rescue mission and why this organization is worthy
Speaker 1: of your donation and your hard earned money, and we
Speaker 1: do hope that you will donate, and we're going to
Speaker 1: be talking to him at the bottom of the hour
Speaker 1: at six oh five. It's handled on the news. The
Speaker 1: Feds have cut interest rates. Is it too late? Let's
Speaker 1: get started with some of the stories coming out of
Speaker 1: the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. A luxury yacht that
Speaker 1: caught fire in Marina del Rey has sank. The fire
Speaker 1: started at about eight thirty last night. Witnesses say they
Speaker 1: saw huge flames in what looked like fireworks shooting from
Speaker 1: the boat, named the Admiral.
Speaker 5: La.
Speaker 1: County Fire Captain Pono Barnes tells KTLA the owner confirmed
Speaker 1: there was ammunition on board. He says crews usually try
Speaker 1: to keep up with pumps when they put out a
Speaker 1: fire so they don't sink it.
Speaker 2: But unfortunately we had to apply enough water to get
Speaker 2: the fire out, and because of its location, it's here
Speaker 2: in about twenty feet of water.
Speaker 1: It's a very large boat, so it's sunk, but it's
Speaker 1: sunk in the slip, he says. Cruz also worked to
Speaker 1: keep fuel, oil and other contaminants from spreading out into
Speaker 1: the marina. News brought to you by American Vision Windows.
Speaker 1: The cost of borrowing money for home and auto loans
Speaker 1: and credit cards is on the decline for the first
Speaker 1: time in four years. The Federal Reserve cut interest rates
Speaker 1: a half percent yesterday. FED Chair Jerome Powell says the
Speaker 1: US economy is strong enough to support the cut.
Speaker 6: The labor market is cooled from its formerly overheated state.
Speaker 1: Powell says future cuts will be based on balancing inflation
Speaker 1: with job and housing markets. Police in Kentucky say they
Speaker 1: believe the body found in the southeast of the state
Speaker 1: is the same guy they've been looking for in connection
Speaker 1: with several shootings on an interstate highway. Police say the
Speaker 1: shooter fired twenty to thirty rounds near a highway exit
Speaker 1: nearly two weeks ago. A dozen cars were hit and
Speaker 1: five people were hurt. Two more cases of dengay fever
Speaker 1: been detected in La County. Health officials say two people
Speaker 1: in Baldwin Park have come down with the mosquito borne illness.
Speaker 1: Symptoms of dang include fever, nausea, vomiting, rash, and aches,
Speaker 1: and pains to the eyes, joints, and bones. Doesn't that
Speaker 1: sound pleasant? Death is extremely rare when it comes to
Speaker 1: dang gay fever. Well, let's say good morning now to
Speaker 1: ABC's Stephen portnoy. So. Stephen, it was a much aweighted announcement.
Speaker 1: Who would the teamsters endorse for presidents?
Speaker 7: And the answer is nobody. And that was the major
Speaker 7: headline yesterday. After endorsing every Democratic candidate since two thousand,
Speaker 7: since Al Gore's Gore, Kerry Obama twice, Hillary Clinton in
Speaker 7: twenty sixteen, and Joe Biden in twenty twenty, the Teamsters
Speaker 7: union says it will not endorse Kamala Harris, but it
Speaker 7: will also not endorse Donald Trump. Why it's kind of
Speaker 7: complicated and nuanced, but let me dig into it.
Speaker 1: Well, that's why we have you, Stephen.
Speaker 8: Right.
Speaker 7: So, in the spring, when it was a Biden Trump rematch,
Speaker 7: a poll of the Teamsters found that most in the
Speaker 7: rank and file would support Biden again they saw him
Speaker 7: it seems as a pro labor president who marched on
Speaker 7: the picket lines and he was their guy. They endorsed
Speaker 7: him in twenty twenty, and most rank and file would
Speaker 7: endorse Biden according to the poll prior to the debate,
Speaker 7: prior to Biden dropping out. Well, the debate happened, Biden
Speaker 7: did drop out, and now it's a Harris Trump matchup.
Speaker 7: And when polled twice, the teams just rank and file
Speaker 7: said they would actually prefer Trump over Harris.
Speaker 1: They got the review, they got the results and went
Speaker 1: that can't be right.
Speaker 7: Let's do it again well maybe, but regardless, and two
Speaker 7: separate surveys it was pretty strong support for Trump versus Harris. However,
Speaker 7: the union leadership said that they cannot trust that Donald
Speaker 7: Trump would not veto a national right to work bill
Speaker 7: that might undermine union security clauses. And the union leadership
Speaker 7: has long been skeptical of Republicans and how they view
Speaker 7: unions for a number of obvious reasons, but specifically when
Speaker 7: it comes to Trump, you know, they listened to what
Speaker 7: he told Elon Musk about firing strike workers in violation
Speaker 7: of federal law. They point to the decisions of his
Speaker 7: NLRB while he was sitting president, and they fear the
Speaker 7: appointments he might make.
Speaker 4: In another term.
Speaker 7: And when it comes to things like that, the decisions
Speaker 7: of the National Labor Relations Board affect the ability of
Speaker 7: unions to organize and fight for their rights and collective
Speaker 7: action and undertake job actions. And they're also disappointed with
Speaker 7: the Biden Harris administration and the Congress because in twenty
Speaker 7: twenty two, you remember, there's a great national discussion about
Speaker 7: a freight rail strike, and in the end it was
Speaker 7: averted because Congress used its power under the Railway Labor
Speaker 7: act to prevent that strike by and by forcing the
Speaker 7: terms on the union. The Congress passed the bill, the
Speaker 7: President signed it that ended the possibility of a strike,
Speaker 7: and Harris apparently would not pledge not to do that again.
Speaker 7: How could she pledge not to do that again? Because
Speaker 7: it's not just railroads but also airlines that are covered
Speaker 7: by this law, and you know, there's the public interest
Speaker 7: in making sure the goods flow across the country and
Speaker 7: the people are able to fly. So for those reasons,
Speaker 7: neither Harris nor Trump gets a teamster's endorsement.
Speaker 1: So is the lack of the endorsement. It's a slap
Speaker 1: in the face for Harris.
Speaker 7: It is definitely seen that way. And Trump points to
Speaker 7: the poll numbers to say, ah, the union rank and
Speaker 7: file are with me. Well, he's going to say that,
Speaker 7: He's going to continue to say that. The union leadership
Speaker 7: says it's not quite the full story. There are many
Speaker 7: Teamsters locals that are supporting Harris, particularly in some of
Speaker 7: the midwestern battleground states. You have to also wonder how
Speaker 7: much it really matters. I mean, if it mattered that much,
Speaker 7: ask you that right, we'd have President carry In two
Speaker 7: thousand and four, and when Hillary Clinton would have never
Speaker 7: lost in twenty sixteen. Oh and maybe Bill Clinton might
Speaker 7: have lost in nineteen ninety six. So the teamsters don't
Speaker 7: always pick a winner. In this case, they're not picking.
Speaker 1: Anybody, all right, Steven Portinoy, thank you so much for
Speaker 1: the information.
Speaker 5: You bet.
Speaker 1: All right, let's get back to some of the stories
Speaker 1: coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. The
Speaker 1: San Bernardino County sheriff says, a protective anti crime program,
Speaker 1: I think it's supposed to be proactive anti crime crime
Speaker 1: program is working.
Speaker 3: Operation Consequences began in twenty twenty two. Samonderdino County Sheriff
Speaker 3: Shannon Dikea says since its inception, investigators have made more
Speaker 3: than thirty six hundred arrests. Dyke says he believes the
Speaker 3: Board of Supervisors will continue funding the programs.
Speaker 9: In terms of their constituents in each one of the
Speaker 9: five districts, they're getting great feedback.
Speaker 3: The operation consists of investigators working leads, then serving search warrants.
Speaker 3: Investigators have so far recovered more than twenty three hundred
Speaker 3: guns and rescued forty four people from human trafficking in
Speaker 3: Samadardino Blake Trolley k.
Speaker 1: If I News thirty lashes Blake, I think you had
Speaker 1: a typo in your lead. Scientists say Southern California is
Speaker 1: part of a region in the US where Parkinson's disease
Speaker 1: is on the rise. Southern California and states in the
Speaker 1: Rust Belt and Sun Belt make up what scientists call
Speaker 1: America's Parkinson's Belt. A study by researchers at the University
Speaker 1: of Pennsylvania shows most areas affected are near big industrial
Speaker 1: or agricultural operations. Are both. They say kee uncles released
Speaker 1: from factories and farms could contribute to a higher risk
Speaker 1: of Parkinson's. Longtime LA City Councilman Paul Kirkoryan has officially
Speaker 1: stepped away as council president.
Speaker 6: On the last day of his two years presiding over
Speaker 6: city council meetings, Krekoryan was praised by all the other members. Krekorian,
Speaker 6: who leaves the council at the end of the year,
Speaker 6: also praised as colleagues, the city should really understand how
Speaker 6: effective this council is and will continue to be. Krekoryan
Speaker 6: took over after the resignation of Nuri Martinez following the
Speaker 6: release of secretly recorded racist audio involving her and other members.
Speaker 6: Councilman Marquis Harris Dawson is the new council president in
Speaker 6: Downtown LA.
Speaker 4: Michael Monks KFI News.
Speaker 1: A government funding bill has been voted down in the House.
Speaker 1: Fourteen Republicans joined with nearly all Democrats yesterday to vote
Speaker 1: against the measure. The bill included a requirement to prove
Speaker 1: citizenship in order to register to vote in federal elections.
Speaker 1: Speaker Mike Johnson says he believes election security is a
Speaker 1: major issue.
Speaker 5: We ran the play.
Speaker 6: It was the best play, it was the right one,
Speaker 6: and so now we go back to the playbook.
Speaker 4: We'll draw up another play and we'll come up with
Speaker 4: a solution. I'm already talking to colleagues about their many ideas.
Speaker 1: Johnson says he's very disappointed the bill didn't pass. The
Speaker 1: government will run out of money October first if they
Speaker 1: don't pass some sort of funding build. San Francisco is
Speaker 1: trying again to stop Oakland from using its new airport
Speaker 1: name because it's too much like San Francisco International Airport.
Speaker 1: Oakland is changing its airport name to San Francisco Bay
Speaker 1: Oakland International Airport. San Francisco City attorney David Chu has
Speaker 1: asked a judge to block the change as part of
Speaker 1: a trademark infringement lawsuit.
Speaker 9: Unfortunately, we have now seen actual confusion occurring in real life,
Speaker 9: confusion that was entirely predictable and preventable. Individuals who book
Speaker 9: flights to SFO intended to travel to Oakland and vice versa.
Speaker 1: It's Oakland official claimed the lawsuit is an attempt to
Speaker 1: stifle competition and travel choices by Bay Area residents. I
Speaker 1: could see where people would get very confused by this.
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Speaker 1: I love Halloween Time at Disney. The Federal Reserve has
Speaker 1: cut interest rates by a half percent just over six
Speaker 1: weeks before the presidential election. It's the closest the Central
Speaker 1: Bank has come to in acting an easing cycle just
Speaker 1: before an election in nearly half a century. A brand
Speaker 1: new rate cutting phase tied this close to the November
Speaker 1: election has only happened twice before, four in nineteen seventy
Speaker 1: six and eighty four. We're going to be talking more
Speaker 1: about what the cut means and whether it's going to
Speaker 1: keep the economy chugging along with ABC's Caleb Silver that's
Speaker 1: coming up before the top of the hour. Ten people
Speaker 1: involved in a pro Palestinian protest at uc Irvine have
Speaker 1: been charged. All are facing misdemeanor charges of failing to
Speaker 1: leave the scene of a riot. A fifty year old
Speaker 1: man is also facing charges of resisting arrest in a
Speaker 1: couple other charges. Forty others arrested during the protests back
Speaker 1: in May have not yet been charged. Fall isn't even
Speaker 1: here yet, but snow is falling in the Sierra Nevada.
Speaker 1: The National Weather Services issued a winter weather advisory, with
Speaker 1: two to five inches of snow expected for areas above
Speaker 1: nine thousand feet In Tahoe Yosemite, Kings Canyon and Sequoia
Speaker 1: National Parks. Higher elevations could see even more snow. At
Speaker 1: six oh five, it's handle on the news teamsters say
Speaker 1: we're not endorsing either presidential candidate. Former President Trump is
Speaker 1: pretty happy about that. Right now, Let's say good morning
Speaker 1: to ABC's crime and Terror analyst Brad Garrett. Brad, they
Speaker 1: haven't admitted to it, but Israel suspected of being behind
Speaker 1: the explosions of pagers on Tuesday and then walkie talkies
Speaker 1: and solar systems yesterday. How did Israel, if it was
Speaker 1: in fact Israel, pull this one off?
Speaker 4: So, I mean, it just has to be Israel, And
Speaker 4: my guess is amy it's the masade because they are
Speaker 4: the sort of the masters of, for lack of better terms,
Speaker 4: assassinations and complicated attacks. So really two things come to mind,
Speaker 4: and we don't know for sure, but there's sort of
Speaker 4: limited possibilities. One would be that they were able to
Speaker 4: compromise and or work with the manufacturer to alter these
Speaker 4: pagers before they left the factory. Now that sounds risky
Speaker 4: to me because it could potentially be too many people involved.
Speaker 4: The other is to intercept the packages, you know, the
Speaker 4: three thousand NARSHO pages at a transit point. So in
Speaker 4: other words, it leaves the factory wherever it is, and
Speaker 4: it goes like any package here, you know, goes to
Speaker 4: fed xups whatever. Wherever the packages went. Then at some
Speaker 4: point Israel was able to intercept them and neither swap
Speaker 4: them out or alter them. My guess is they swapped
Speaker 4: them out. It would be too time consuming to basically
Speaker 4: rig up, for lack of better terms, three thousand plus pages,
Speaker 4: because you're really talking about, according to the explosives people
Speaker 4: I talked to, probably a small quantity of something like
Speaker 4: PETN next to the battery. And then if it's an explosive,
Speaker 4: it's a chemical that's used, and bad guys use them
Speaker 4: all the time. Terrorist use them all the time to
Speaker 4: blow up stuff in a small client like an ounce
Speaker 4: maybe an ounce and a half the battery. And then
Speaker 4: I assume they have hacked the pager system some way
Speaker 4: that they could send a code to the pagers and
Speaker 4: the code then would overheat the battery. The battery would
Speaker 4: then explode, and then the explosive chemical for lack of
Speaker 4: better terms, exploded. That's why the explosions were fairly small.
Speaker 4: You noticed on the next day. When you go to
Speaker 4: walkie talkies, the explosions are bigger and they're more harmful,
Speaker 4: just because the battery in a walkie talkie obviously is
Speaker 4: bigger than what you would have clearly in a pager.
Speaker 4: So you're talking about something that would take months, if
Speaker 4: not years to pull off. You'd have to know, you know,
Speaker 4: you'd have to know who's making the pager, when they're
Speaker 4: going to ship it, where the transit points, have all
Speaker 4: the other ones ready to go to swap them out.
Speaker 4: I mean, we're talking quite an operation. It's pretty from
Speaker 4: that standpoint, it's quite impressive. Now the damage it did,
Speaker 4: that's another story, but it's a it's a pretty amazing feat.
Speaker 4: And you know, Israel basically has said, you know, they
Speaker 4: have other things up their sleeve. For lack of better
Speaker 4: terms of what they could do, I'm going to assume
Speaker 4: look tech to other terrorist groups or maybe continue on
Speaker 4: with Hesbela.
Speaker 1: Yeah, how much damage do we know was done to
Speaker 1: like their communications network? Because we know that Hesbola said,
Speaker 1: you know what, they can track our cell phones. Let's
Speaker 1: get rid of cell phones and go to pagers because
Speaker 1: that's a better way to communicate. Privately, but then maybe
Speaker 1: Israel heard them talking about that and that's when they
Speaker 1: kind of cooked up this plan. If Israel in fact
Speaker 1: did it, But like, how much damage was done to
Speaker 1: their communication network? Do we know?
Speaker 4: I think short, short term immense damage. If you can't
Speaker 4: use cell phones, you can't use pagers, and now you
Speaker 4: can't use walkie talkies. I mean, you know, can they
Speaker 4: go back to runners? You know, they probably can. I
Speaker 4: mean I think Ben Lauden back in his day he
Speaker 4: used runners and didn't use anything electronically. But that's time
Speaker 4: consuming and if you're trying to do something quickly, that's
Speaker 4: just not going to work. So I think they've they've
Speaker 4: majorly damaged their ability to communicate with each other. And
Speaker 4: you know, we'll see how it slows them down, but
Speaker 4: I see it as a big issue for them.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And do you think that other groups are going
Speaker 1: to try this kind of thing, like, Hey, that worked
Speaker 1: really well, we'll try it. Or was it kind of
Speaker 1: a one off? Because like you said, there had to
Speaker 1: be so many things that fell into place at the
Speaker 1: right time to pull this off. Maybe it's too much work.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, you'd have to have a really sophisticated
Speaker 4: group of folks to have the time, the energy, and
Speaker 4: the know how to your point, to pull this off.
Speaker 4: Do I think they could use lesser extreme versions of this,
Speaker 4: in particular in the cyber world. The answer is yes.
Speaker 4: I mean, think about it, Amy if you if you
Speaker 4: were able to shut down the electric and water supply
Speaker 4: to Los Angeles some way, I just think what that
Speaker 4: would do. I mean, you wouldn't be able to use
Speaker 4: anything electronically. Things would just stop. And so the vulnerability
Speaker 4: of all these systems we have, and that's true all
Speaker 4: over the world, That's not just here. It is concerning
Speaker 4: the people like me, because all of the systems have
Speaker 4: vulnerabilities just because of the very nature of what they are.
Speaker 1: So are we doing anything to uh make them less
Speaker 1: vulnerable in the US?
Speaker 4: Well, I think so, we yes, But the question, you know,
Speaker 4: it still remains is that you're really talking about. I mean,
Speaker 4: if even if you look at energy or electricity, you
Speaker 4: know that tends to be controlled by municipalities or regions,
Speaker 4: and you know, are they keeping all of their cyber
Speaker 4: stuff up to speed? You know, with patches et cetera.
Speaker 4: Is somebody monitoring that. Are people looking for anomalies of
Speaker 4: information that's coming through their system, all of those things.
Speaker 4: Someplace to do a really good job with that, others don't,
Speaker 4: because let's face it, it's a huge system, and we've
Speaker 4: got different municipalities running different systems, and so certainly regional
Speaker 4: attacks I think are probably more realistic than you know,
Speaker 4: across the board attack. But you know, it's something that's
Speaker 4: always there, and I think, yes, we're more aware of it.
Speaker 4: Are we doing everything we can that may or mean
Speaker 4: to be the case?
Speaker 1: Well, let's just hope that the people in power are
Speaker 1: being more proactive than reactive, because yes, it's kind of
Speaker 1: a scary proposition. Brad Garrett, thank you so much for
Speaker 1: the information. We appreciated it. As always.
Speaker 8: You're welcome.
Speaker 4: Thank carrying me too soon.
Speaker 1: Cruz on the fire that started in San Gabriel Canyon
Speaker 1: say they're making progress getting lines around it while attacking
Speaker 1: the most active northwest and southeast flanks with ground and
Speaker 1: air resources. Firefighters been mopping up and controlling big pines
Speaker 1: and right wood on the northeast side. They say better
Speaker 1: weather has helped prevent the fire from spreading further toward
Speaker 1: the Mile High and Paradise Springs communities. The fires burn
Speaker 1: nearly fifty five thousand acres. It's forty one percent surrounded.
Speaker 1: Eighty one homes and other buildings have been destroyed, and
Speaker 1: nineteen more are damaged. A federal judge in New York
Speaker 1: has again rejected a fifty million dollars bail package offered
Speaker 1: by defense lawyers for Sean Diddy Combs. ABC's Aaron Katirsky
Speaker 1: says the Bad Boy Records founder is alleged to have
Speaker 1: planned and controlled drug fueled sex performances, which he called freak.
Speaker 10: Coffs prosecutors saying devices allegedly containing videos of those freak
Speaker 10: offs were seized during raids on Combs's homes in Los
Speaker 10: Angeles and Miami, and it has closet eight and saying
Speaker 10: they found AR fifteen's with serial numbers to face.
Speaker 1: Colmbs was initially denied bail after pleading not guilty to racketeering,
Speaker 1: sex trafficking, and prostitution charges. Local leaders have broken ground
Speaker 1: on a new Costco with housing in South LA.
Speaker 6: The development not only brings the popular retailer, but for
Speaker 6: the first time, a Costco warehouse will have housing above it,
Speaker 6: eight hundred apartments. Councilwoman Heather Hudt says she expects the
Speaker 6: new store and residents to shore up surrounding businesses.
Speaker 1: When we have this kind of destination, a really boosy
Speaker 1: economy all the way around.
Speaker 6: A quarter of the new units are reserved for income
Speaker 6: restricted tenants. That component qualified the project to be fast
Speaker 6: tracked under a new state law. In South LA, Michael
Speaker 6: Monks KFI News.
Speaker 1: La County Sheriff Robert Luna has officially called for a
Speaker 1: ban on so called deputy gangs or clicks. The new
Speaker 1: policy would ban participation in a law enforcement gang or
Speaker 1: soliciting others to become members. It also bars deputies from
Speaker 1: being members of any hate growl. The owner of a
Speaker 1: recycling company in the San Fernando Valley has been arrested
Speaker 1: and will be charged with receiving stolen property, including thousands
Speaker 1: of pounds of metal from street light wires and bronze plaques.
Speaker 1: The fifty six year old owner of Tuxford Recycling was
Speaker 1: arrested as part of a compliance check targeting recycling centers
Speaker 1: and metal yards. A one hundred foot yacht has caught
Speaker 1: fire and sank in Marina del Rey. Officials say the
Speaker 1: yacht had fireworks and about a thousand rounds of ammunition
Speaker 1: on board when it caught fire last night. Several fireworks
Speaker 1: exploded in the air as the fire burned. Two people
Speaker 1: on board were able to get off and were not hurt.
Speaker 1: At six oh five, its handle on the news, Israel
Speaker 1: says it's entering a new era of war. What that means?
Speaker 1: At five point fifty, the Fed has cut interest rates
Speaker 1: by a half percentage point. Was that the best thing
Speaker 1: for the economy. We'll find out with ABC's Caleb Silver.
Speaker 1: But right now, let's say good morning too. The vice
Speaker 1: president of Philanthropy and Social Enterprise with the Union Rescue Mission,
Speaker 1: It's Richard Newcombe. Good morning, Richard.
Speaker 5: Good morning. Amy. Thrilled to be here with you.
Speaker 1: Well, I'm thrilled and terrified to be here with you.
Speaker 1: So tell us exactly real quick before we talk about
Speaker 1: the Union Rescue Mission. What Neil Savadra and I have
Speaker 1: gotten ourselves into, well, you or I am.
Speaker 5: In twenty nineteen signed up with an organization out of
Speaker 5: Canada that helps nonprofits raise funds through an event called
Speaker 5: over the Edge, and they've done it. This is actually
Speaker 5: their twenty year anniversary and they have our event from
Speaker 5: last year featured on there their social media page because
Speaker 5: we raised the most money in the history of this
Speaker 5: and any organization in North America.
Speaker 1: Oh, let's do it again.
Speaker 11: Yeah, So we did it in twenty nineteen, raised five
Speaker 11: hundred and seventy five thousand dollars. Twenty twenty one, twenty
Speaker 11: twenty two, we raised one point one million. Last year
Speaker 11: we raised nine to fifteen. We didn't have a match
Speaker 11: for a major from a major donor, but this year
Speaker 11: we do.
Speaker 5: And we're shooting for two million dollars, which would be
Speaker 5: the world record for anyone repelling off off of a
Speaker 5: high rise building to help raise money to fight for
Speaker 5: Worthy And so the previous record prior to you RM
Speaker 5: was Make a Wish Foundation in Austin, Texas. So okay,
Speaker 5: so we are shooting for We're shooting for two million
Speaker 5: dollars and we're pelling off the roof of the Universal
Speaker 5: Hilton Hotel on September twenty seventh and twenty eighth. And
Speaker 5: that's what you signed up for all day Friday. You're coming, right,
Speaker 5: you're looking at checking out.
Speaker 1: No, I'm coming. I'll be there. We're both Neil and I.
Speaker 1: We we're going over the edge because we want we
Speaker 1: believe in this. In the Union Rescue Mission, and we
Speaker 1: want to help you raise money. But you mentioned that
Speaker 1: there is a match for a major donor, So is
Speaker 1: it for up up to a certain point or for
Speaker 1: every dollar that's donated up up.
Speaker 5: To six up to six hundred thousand dollars that donor
Speaker 5: is matching that.
Speaker 1: That's amazing, Okay, great, okay, So let's let's talk about this, Richard,
Speaker 1: because people are skeptical of donating to homeless programs. I mean,
Speaker 1: I just want to It's kind of the elephant in
Speaker 1: the room because so much money has been thrown at
Speaker 1: this problem, and homelessness is getting worse. We all see
Speaker 1: it every day just driving around town. So let's talk
Speaker 1: about the Union Rescue Mission and how it is different
Speaker 1: from other programs that are fighting homelessness.
Speaker 5: Well, I'm glad you brought that up. We since that
Speaker 5: the citizenry of Los Angeles is frustrated with the homeless situation.
Speaker 5: It doesn't seem to be improving. It didn't go up
Speaker 5: on the last count and went down by two hundred
Speaker 5: people from seventy five thousand, five hundred to seventy five thousand,
Speaker 5: three hundred. But people aren't seeing a real change, and
Speaker 5: so we have launched a campaign that is part of
Speaker 5: this event called just Help One, because we want people
Speaker 5: to not give up the fight. The seventeen million people
Speaker 5: in metropolitan Los Angeles, what if each of us stepped
Speaker 5: up to help one person? And so we're trying to
Speaker 5: let people know. It's an awareness campaign. We have billboards
Speaker 5: all over town, We're running radio ads on iHeartRadio stations
Speaker 5: and rallying people to our cause. Because Union Rescue Mission
Speaker 5: has been in Los Angeles for one hundred and thirty
Speaker 5: three years, we receive no government general operating funding and
Speaker 5: we get a perfect one hundred rating from Charity Navigator
Speaker 5: because eighty six cents of every dollar is going to
Speaker 5: life saving life transformation of programs. Okay, so yeah, Richie
Speaker 5: fall short, Yes, Yeah.
Speaker 1: We want to talk about the government funding. Neil and
Speaker 1: I have talked about it, but I want to hear
Speaker 1: from you. You guys don't get any government money.
Speaker 5: Why because if you take funds from the city, county,
Speaker 5: or state, you have to run your facilities under the
Speaker 5: harm reduction model, which means people are allowed to use
Speaker 5: drugs and alcohol in your facility, which we do not embrace. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, man, that's really powerful. Because if you think about it,
Speaker 1: it's the people who want to get help who are
Speaker 1: coming to you. Correct, And I think.
Speaker 5: Correct last night. Last night we had thirteen hundred human
Speaker 5: beings under roof at our three facilities, sober living facilities.
Speaker 5: Nine hundred of them were moms, dads and kids in
Speaker 5: over one hundred and fifty were seniors. I mean, what
Speaker 5: kind of chaos would ensue if drugs and alcohol flowed
Speaker 5: freely in those environments.
Speaker 1: Yeah. The other thing that I think is great about
Speaker 1: your organization is that you were telling us about the
Speaker 1: transitional housing. So you've eating thousands of people, but you're
Speaker 1: also working to actively help people get off the streets
Speaker 1: and get back into housing. Correct.
Speaker 5: We have lots of supportive programs that we offered, but
Speaker 5: people need to embrace it. Yes, I'm looking for change.
Speaker 5: One of them is Hope Gardens Family Center out in
Speaker 5: Silmar from moms and children. It's two to three years.
Speaker 5: You know, you get your ged, you get money management skills.
Speaker 5: We help you train for a job, we help you
Speaker 5: find for find a job, We help you save. We
Speaker 5: had two moms graduate recently, one at Save seventeen thousand
Speaker 5: and one at Save twenty. You know, and now they're
Speaker 5: moving on to a self sustaining life. Eighty percent success
Speaker 5: right that, Hope Gardens.
Speaker 1: That's amazing. See, so, like you said, we can't there's
Speaker 1: seventy five thousand people. We can't help them all, but
Speaker 1: we can help them one at a time, and especially
Speaker 1: help the ones who want the help in.
Speaker 5: Union Rescue mission welcome. Then seventy five hundred human beings
Speaker 5: in the past year. That's ten percent of the entire
Speaker 5: homeless population. So we're making a significant impact. We are
Speaker 5: doing it efficiently and effectively. Hope the citizenry of Los
Speaker 5: Angeles will rally around us and help us do more.
Speaker 1: Okay, so in the immediate future, tell us how we're
Speaker 1: going to rally around it. So one way is to
Speaker 1: make a donation just help one dot org, and we
Speaker 1: now have a tab on the homepage for the Team iHeart.
Speaker 1: You can go directly to it and make a donation
Speaker 1: to support Neil and me and others from some of
Speaker 1: our other sister radio stations who are going to be
Speaker 1: going over the edge next week on Friday and Saturday.
Speaker 1: I'm going to be there on Friday afternoon, and then
Speaker 1: if you want to conquer a fear and maybe repel
Speaker 1: down a twenty five story building. How do you do that, Richard?
Speaker 5: They go to that same website, just help one the
Speaker 5: number one dot org and sign up. You know, there's
Speaker 5: three buttons. It's a registered sponsor and then it's got
Speaker 5: iheart's button, and so any level that people want to participate,
Speaker 5: we could use more sponsors. At the corporate level. I
Speaker 5: we just had Sweet James the attorney sign up yesterday
Speaker 5: and they're giving money that you it's fun for one
Speaker 5: hundred thousand meals. Help us feed more people, and they're
Speaker 5: going to send a team over the edge and so people.
Speaker 5: We'd love to have more participants. We do have the slots,
Speaker 5: some available on Friday, lots available on Saturday. And it's safe.
Speaker 5: This has been going on for twenty years in North America,
Speaker 5: and the only person went to a hospital had an
Speaker 5: allergic beasting. Nobody's ever been heard. I've done it eight times.
Speaker 5: It's a little scary to go over the edge. At first,
Speaker 5: you look down. You are up there with me, right
Speaker 5: and we look down on terrifre. Yeah, but it's a blast,
Speaker 5: and afterwards it's exhilarated and every participant within two to
Speaker 5: three hours afterwards, it gets a video that includes drone
Speaker 5: footage and you personally going from the roof to the bottom,
Speaker 5: and they get that and they can post that on
Speaker 5: social media, email it texted within two to three hours
Speaker 5: after their experience.
Speaker 1: I love it. And speaking of social media, I'm going
Speaker 1: to put up a post and give you a little
Speaker 1: sneak peek of what it looks like when you go
Speaker 1: over the edge at Amy Kking. That's on Instagram at
Speaker 1: amy Kking or also the KFI AM six forty the
Speaker 1: at KFI AM six forty. We're going to post that
Speaker 1: now so you can get a little look and we'll
Speaker 1: also put the address there for where you can donate.
Speaker 1: But it's just help one dot org. Richard Newcombe, thank
Speaker 1: you so much for coming on because I think, like
Speaker 1: I said, people are skeptical and this is an organization
Speaker 1: you can get behind. And whether you can donate ten
Speaker 1: dollars or one hundred or one thousand dollars, we'll take it.
Speaker 1: We need it and people need it.
Speaker 5: Thank you, Amy Kay. Wait to see you next Friday.
Speaker 1: All right, Thank you so much, Richard, God bless you.
Speaker 1: Thanks you all right, take care. I would say I'm
Speaker 1: really excited to see him, but I'm actually really terrified
Speaker 1: because when I do see him, it means that I'm
Speaker 1: going to be repelling off of building a very short
Speaker 1: time later. Again, it's just help one dot org and
Speaker 1: you can take a sneak peek at it at Amy
Speaker 1: Kking or at KFI AM six forty. We're going to
Speaker 1: post that up on Instagram in just a couple of minutes.
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Speaker 1: UC police say they plan to ask University of California
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Speaker 1: more protests like the pro palestinating protests that broke out
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Speaker 1: and T is going to remove over one hundred thousand
Speaker 1: pounds of lead from Lake Tahoe. The lead is covering
Speaker 1: about six miles of underwater telecommunications cables along the lake's
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Speaker 1: removed from the lake before June of next year. The
Speaker 1: San Diego Zoo is celebrating the first successful sea section
Speaker 1: for a porcupine. The Zoo's Wildlife Alliance says the c
Speaker 1: section saved the lives of the mama and the baby porcupine.
Speaker 1: Veterinarians say this marks a major advancement in veterinary science
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Speaker 1: minutes away from handling the news this morning. Teamster say
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Speaker 1: ABC's Klebs Silver Kleb, the Fed has finally started lowering
Speaker 1: interest rates, and they didn't just cut them by a
Speaker 1: quarter percent, but a half percent, which is bigger than
Speaker 1: a lot of people were expecting. That's great for us,
Speaker 1: hopefully for borrowing and that kind of thing. But is
Speaker 1: it great for everybody?
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 8: The flip side of lower interest rates is you earn
Speaker 8: less money in the bank. So we've been enjoying five
Speaker 8: percent in CDs, high savings accounts and money market accounts.
Speaker 8: Those days are numbered because this is just the beginning
Speaker 8: of a interest rate cutting regime that the Fed is on.
Speaker 8: Fed share Pal saying it's time for recalibration while we're
Speaker 8: getting it in the former lower rates. Rates are coming down,
Speaker 8: not just yesterday, but by the end of this year.
Speaker 8: The FED expects rates to be around four and a
Speaker 8: half percent by the end of next year about three
Speaker 8: point four percent, So expect lower rates, which is good
Speaker 8: for stimulating the economy in terms of more borrowing. Again,
Speaker 8: the flip side, less money in the bank.
Speaker 1: Okay, And it was widely expected that it was going
Speaker 1: to be a quarter point drop, but it was a
Speaker 1: half point. Is there any indication of why it was
Speaker 1: a larger drop?
Speaker 8: Well, it was also the first cut we've seen since
Speaker 8: twenty twenty and the biggest cup.
Speaker 4: We've seen in sixteen years.
Speaker 8: And usually when the FED cuts a half a point,
Speaker 8: it means the economy is in trouble. But feeds our
Speaker 8: Pals being very clear yesterday in his press conference and
Speaker 8: in the FED statement, the economy is actually in a
Speaker 8: pretty good spot right now. The FED wanted to cut
Speaker 8: aggressively so that it would remain in a good place
Speaker 8: right now, the wind in its sales, so to speak.
Speaker 8: So cheaper money with the Fed sets through the Fed
Speaker 8: Funds rate, which is the rate at which banks lend
Speaker 8: to each other, and then bank loaned us. That stimulates
Speaker 8: more borrowing. You're going to feel it in credit card aprs.
Speaker 8: Those are coming down. Mortgage rates have already come down,
Speaker 8: and they're going to keep going lower. Personal cars, personal
Speaker 8: loans and loans for cars new and use, those are
Speaker 8: also coming down. Cheaper money means more borrowing, and businesses
Speaker 8: borrow more when money's cheaper as well, and hopefully they'll
Speaker 8: keep hiring if those interest rates stay low. And I
Speaker 8: think that was behind the FEDS thinking here on this
Speaker 8: big cut.
Speaker 1: Okay, and you mentioned that mortgage rates have already come down,
Speaker 1: so the effect is pretty much immediate.
Speaker 8: Mortgage rates are very sensitive to the Fed Funds rate
Speaker 8: and the yield on the ten year Treasury, and those
Speaker 8: have been coming down. They're around six point two percent now.
Speaker 8: They were about seven point eight percent a year ago,
Speaker 8: so those are coming down and going lower. And we
Speaker 8: finally seen some activity in the real estate market more
Speaker 8: applications for mortgages, more refinancing applications. We haven't seen that
Speaker 8: in two years. More activity in the housing market means
Speaker 8: more spending. Spending drives the economy. That's behind the Fed's
Speaker 8: thinking here. We got to get people to keep spending
Speaker 8: in order to keep the economy growing.
Speaker 1: Okay, and then you also mentioned credit cards. So does
Speaker 1: the rate cut immediately mean that credit card companies are
Speaker 1: going to lower their interest rates because they're stupid high.
Speaker 8: Yeah, they're at a record high right now, over twenty
Speaker 8: one percent. I've seen some of the twenty four to
Speaker 8: twenty five percent. So if you have good credit, they're
Speaker 8: lower and they're going to get lower. And if you
Speaker 8: have a lot of credit card debt right now in
Speaker 8: some cards, you'll see those rates come down, but then
Speaker 8: you'll see a lot of competition for lower and lower
Speaker 8: rates to consolidate your debt. So it affects It affects
Speaker 8: credit card aprs significantly, mortgage rates significantly. But again the
Speaker 8: flip side is the money you've been earning in the
Speaker 8: bank to those highlight savings accounts and CDs. You're not
Speaker 8: going to get that type of offer for a long time.
Speaker 1: Okay, And Caleb work. Are we expecting another cut before
Speaker 1: the end of.
Speaker 8: The year for sure, and that has been very clear
Speaker 8: that it expects rates that around four point four percent
Speaker 8: at the end of this year three point four percent
Speaker 8: at the end of next year.
Speaker 1: That'd be nice to see again. Caleb Silver with ABC,
Speaker 1: thank you so much for the information. We appreciate it.
Speaker 8: My pleasure.
Speaker 1: I think I'm going to go spend some money on
Speaker 1: my credit card. I'm just kidding. I'm not. Let's get
Speaker 1: back to some of the stories coming up out of
Speaker 1: the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. A resource center is
Speaker 1: opening in Lake elson Or for people impacted by the
Speaker 1: more than twenty three thousand acre wildfire that started in
Speaker 1: Orange County. The fire has destroyed one hundred and sixty
Speaker 1: homes and other buildings and damaged thirty four others. It's
Speaker 1: almost forty percent surrounded. Officials say the fire was accidentally
Speaker 1: started ten days ago by a county public works crew
Speaker 1: using heavy equipment. A forty three year old former school
Speaker 1: bus driver in Santa Anna has been convicted of sexually
Speaker 1: assaulting two young girls he lived with, starting when they
Speaker 1: were about six and eight years old. Nary Gonzalez was
Speaker 1: convicted on several counts of sexual abuse over a four
Speaker 1: year period in Santa Anna and Garden Grove. He'll be
Speaker 1: sentenced in November. A two hundred acre phase at the
Speaker 1: center of a billion dollar Great Park expansion in Irvine
Speaker 1: will include two large lakes and a live music amphitheater.
Speaker 2: A grand promenade, a great meadow, and a full circle
Speaker 2: farm will feature walking paths through the heart of the park.
Speaker 2: Councilman Mike Carroll says a timeline bridge will also highlight
Speaker 2: the history of the Eltra Marine Base.
Speaker 5: This will be the largest municipal park, greater than Balboa Park,
Speaker 5: Golden Gay Park, and even New York Central Park.
Speaker 2: The full expansion will add three hundred acres to the
Speaker 2: current five hundred acres of sports fields and more. The projects,
Speaker 2: set to be complete in twenty twenty nine, will include
Speaker 2: an aviation museum, a veterans memorial park, restaurant shops, and
Speaker 2: botanical gardens. In Orange County, Corbin carsenkf.
Speaker 1: I News Senna's Great Billy Jean King said to become
Speaker 1: the first female athlete ever to earn the Congressional Gold Medal.
Speaker 1: The bill to honor King was passed by both the
Speaker 1: House and Senate. Now it just needs President Biden's signature.
Speaker 1: King has been a champion for women's sports and rights,
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